EKA, the supercomputer built at the Computational Research Laboratories (CRL), subsidiary of Tata in Pune has grabbed the top place in the list of Top500 Supercomputers announced at SC07, the international conference for high-performance computing, networking, storage and analysis at Reno, Nevada, USA.
The EKA has been rated as the fourth fastest supercomputer in the world and fastest supercomputer in Asia.
This Indian super computer uses nearly 1800 computing nodes and has a peak performance of 170 Teraflops (TFlops or Trillion Floating Point Operations per Second). Moreover, it delivers a sustained performance of 120 Teraflops based on the LINPACK benchmarks which are used by the world-wide community to rank supercomputers based on performance.
Celebrating this success Ratan Tata, Chairman of the Tata group said, “High performance computing solutions have an ever-increasing role in the scientific and new technological space the world over.â€
He added, “The Tata group has supported this development activity and is extremely proud of the team that has developed and built this supercomputer, which is now ranked as the world’s fourth fastest. I am sure this supercomputer and its successor systems will make a major contribution to India’s ongoing scientific and technological initiatives.”
The supercomputer installed at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore is India’s second fastest computer and has been ranked 58th in the Top500 list. Meanwhile, the BlueGene/L System developed by IBM and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and established at DOE’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California is the fastest supercomputer in the world.
